ATI Catalyst 10.3a Driver Performance Benchmarking

Radeon HD 5870 Test Settings

All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
with all the latest updates installed. All benchmarks were completed on
the desktop with no other software programs running. The Corsair
DOMINATOR memory modules were run in triple-channel mode at 1866MHz
with 8-8-8-24 timings. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics
cards was tested with 10.2 CATALYST and 10.3a CATALYST (“yo, Fermi, grease up and bend over” – Best Quote by AMD ever) drivers. The ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
motherboard was run using BIOS 0610 with the processor running stock
settings and Turbo enabled.

Windows 7 Drivers Used:

Intel Chipset Inf Update Program V9.1.1.1014
SoundMAX
2000B Audio Driver V6.10.2.6585 for Windows 64bit Windows 7.(WHQL)
Marvell

Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Driver V11.10.5.3 for 32/64bit Windows 7.(WHQL)

Here is the Intel LGA 1366 Test platform:

Intel Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core i7 975	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS P6T Deluxe V2	Click Here
Memory	6GB Corsair DDR3 1866MHz	Click Here
Video Card	See Below	Click Here
Hard Drive	Western Digital VelociRaptor	Click Here
Cooling	Titan Finrar	Click Here
Power Supply	Cooler Master 1000W	Click Here
Chassis	None (Open Bench)	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit	Click Here

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GPU-Z 0.3.9 Details: